Mar 10Is LA Times Reporter Liam Dillon a Shill for Big Real Estate?A weeks-long Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that Los Angeles Times housing reporter Liam Dillon participated in at least 20 real estate industry events since 2016, committing numerous conflict-of-interest breaches and possibly other ethical violations. Dillon’s disturbing, six-year pattern includes participating in real estate industry lobbying events…Housing16 min readHousing16 min read
Feb 7Will Progressives Ever Make Housing a Top Priority?Housing justice activists have been increasingly pushing for the passage of rent control and the repeal of rent control bans in states and cities all over the country. Rents have skyrocketed the most out of any household expense. The rise of corporate landlords have turned tenants’ lives upside and down…Progressive3 min readProgressive3 min read
Jan 19Top Five Flaws of Stanford University Study on Rent ControlFor more than five years, reporters and the real estate industry continue to cite a seriously flawed and misleading study on rent control by Stanford University researchers. At the same time, reporters almost never mention studies by experts at USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley that found rent control is a…Housing3 min readHousing3 min read
Jan 18Tenants Hit Back. RealPage and Corporate Landlords Face More Than 20 Lawsuits.Across the country, tenants are hitting back after a ProPublica investigation found that RealPage, a Big Tech firm based in Texas, helps a cartel of corporate landlords to wildly inflate rents. So far, RealPage and its corporate clients have been slapped with more than 20 lawsuits. Essex Property Trust, Equity…Housing4 min readHousing4 min read
Jan 7California Has Most Rent-Burdened Tenants in US. We Need Rent Control.California has more rent-burdened tenants than anywhere in the United States, according to a new report by the O.C. Register. It’s more proof that California desperately needs to end statewide rent control restrictions — and allow localities to create new or expanded rent control policies. This week, the O.C. Register…Housing3 min readHousing3 min read
Jan 5‘3 Ps’ Must Be Top Priority for Housing PolicymakersAs the housing affordability and homelessness crises continue to slam the poor and middle- and working-class residents, the “3 Ps” must be a top priority for housing policymakers. Trickle-down housing solutions don’t help those who need it most, and they will never solve the housing affordability and homelessness emergencies in…Housing3 min readHousing3 min read
Dec 21, 2022Will LA City Hall Use AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Urgent, Cost-Effective Model to Build More Homeless Housing?Since 2017, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the parent organization of Housing Is A Human Right, has bought more than a dozen old hotels and motels in the Los Angeles area, renovated them, and quickly produced more than 1,400 units of low-income and homeless housing. AHF’s successful adaptive-reuse model is an urgent…Homeless3 min readHomeless3 min read
Dec 17, 2022Housing Is A Human Right’s Top 5 Most-Read Stories of 2022As part of our cutting-edge advocacy, Housing Is A Human Right publishes award-winning advocacy journalism in the News section of our website. We write with a grassroots perspective that mainstream reporters don’t often use; we publish in-depth special investigations; and we offer top-notch analysis of the latest housing justice news…Housing Is A Human Right4 min readHousing Is A Human Right4 min read
Dec 15, 2022Housing Is A Human Right and Healthy Housing Foundation Reach New Milestone, Urgently Serving Tenants and the Unhoused for Five YearsIn 2022, Housing Is A Human Right and its sister organization, Healthy Housing Foundation, reached a new milestone: five years of serving tenants and the unhoused by urgently addressing the housing affordability and homelessness crises. In that time, HHR has mounted major battles to pass rent control and HHF has…Housing4 min readHousing4 min read
Dec 2, 2022Big Real Estate Wanted to Keep Charging Excessive Rents. So It Spent $175 Million to Kill Rent Control in California.In 2018 and 2020, Big Real Estate spent a total of $175.4 million to kill rent control ballot measures in California, aggressively protecting its ability to charge higher and higher rents. Two years later, several of the top contributors to the anti-rent control campaigns are now facing lawsuits and possible…Housing5 min readHousing5 min read
